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Wrench Forum => Wrench Forum => Topic started by: woodland_hank on March 19, 2018, 05:20:26 PM
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I'm altering this post to include multiple wrench display boards I'm making. There may be a few other displays added in here as well. As of now I like the theme of the displays I'm making. All are maple with maple plywood to direct the focus on the tools themselves. These will be hung with the Williams board and some others at some point in the future.
Just finished up another wrench display board. These Hinsdale wrenches date from the 1930's and were made in the Chicago area. While this collection didn't require the tenacity the Williams collection did, it did take a number of years from the 1st wrench to the completed display. Let's just say I lost my focus on a number of things in life and am now playing catch-up. The advertisement is out of a Popular Science magazine from June of 1929. It's a paper copy that's taped on. Later this week I'm get a photo print of the ad made at Walgreen's and will adhere it to the board for the finishing touch.
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Very nice! I have the set, but mine are mounted in a simple picture frame. Nice work!
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Another beauty!
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A tip of the cap to you sir, I never get tired of seeing any thing on wrenches. thank you. nice job again. Frank
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I've got to agree with everyone else. Its all in the details.
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"Sorry if this is getting redundant"
Nothing to apologize for. Looks great! :smiley:
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Very lovely. I likes it a lot :wink:
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Hello, Hank. Another fine job on your display work!!!!!!!! Regards, Lou
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A NOS Craftsman open end wrench set from the early 70's. I incorporated an emblem from a table saw parts machine to break up the vinyl cutting theme a bit. I also considered using an emblem off an old tool box.
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Another display board done. This one is a set of angle head Snap-On wrenches. I'd love to have the complete set of angle head wrenches Snap-On offered but I simply can't afford them. The board is the exact same construction as all the rest. However, I modified a Snap-On catalog page for the header of this board. It will be photo printed and adhered at a later date. The standard paper print is a place holder for now.
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mighty snappy displays that you have put together. I admire your ability to think them out. Frank
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Nicely done, again!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing! Regards, Lou
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And a couple more. First is a display of some vintage locks that belonged to my grandfather. Next is a Barcalo wrench display with a print of the patent document.
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Wow. Those are very nice display boards.Makes me want to get to my ass out to the shop and try to do something along those lines. Any chance you could tell me what sizes that set of Barcalos include?
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Sweet Barcalo set!
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The reason I was asking the sizes of the convex Barcalo set is because you show 6 pieces and I have 8 different sizes in my collection, with several duplicats in most of the sizes. Following are the sizes I have. 1x15/16, 7/8x25/32, 3/4x5/8, 11/66x19/32, 5/8x9/16, 9/16x1/2, 7/16x3/8, and 13/32x5/16.
If you want to let me know which ones you don't have I'll look and see if I have any spares in those sizes and If I do your welcome to them for the cost of shipping. I am up in Canada so so it will cost a little more than it would to ship from one of the states. It would be a damn shame to have to rework or make a new display board but you do such a nise job I'm sure you could handle it. I would like to display mine in a similar fashion so if you don't mind I'll probably try to pick your brain a bit as to how you got that Barcalo decal. It really looks good. Let me know, Jim.
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The reason I was asking the sizes of the convex Barcalo set is because you show 6 pieces and I have 8 different sizes in my collection, with several duplicats in most of the sizes. Following are the sizes I have. 1x15/16, 7/8x25/32, 3/4x5/8, 11/66x19/32, 5/8x9/16, 9/16x1/2, 7/16x3/8, and 13/32x5/16.
If you want to let me know which ones you don't have I'll look and see if I have any spares in those sizes and If I do your welcome to them for the cost of shipping. I am up in Canada so so it will cost a little more than it would to ship from one of the states. It would be a damn shame to have to rework or make a new display board but you do such a nise job I'm sure you could handle it. I would like to display mine in a similar fashion so if you don't mind I'll probably try to pick your brain a bit as to how you got that Barcalo decal. It really looks good. Let me know, Jim.
Jim, my set includes 3/32 x 5/16, 7/16 x 3/8, 9/16 x 1/2, 11/16 x 19/32, 3/4 x 5/8 and 7/8 x 25/32.
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Thanks to Skip I had to make a new display board for the additional wrench in the Hinsdale collection. I'm not complaining by any means! Also, I may offer offer the 5 wrench display on the classifieds here if there's any interest. Anybody have the #1-#5 set they want to display?
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For some reason I could not send the pics on a pm so I'll try it here
One pic shows my set which has 9 different sizes ( not 8 like I had said ) and the other picture shows the 2 that I could send you, unfortunately I don"t have a spare 5/8x9/16.The two I can send are the 1x15/16 and a 1/2x 7/16.
It looks to me that I might be missing one size probably a 3/8x5/16.This is just a quess by looking at the lengths that get progesivly shorter as the sizes decrease
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I see I need to start using spell check in my posts.
If anybody has a Barcalo convex pattern 3/8x5/16 wrench I'd sure be interested in a purchase or a trade.
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I finished a few more tool display boards this week. First up is a 1/4" drive SK set. Then the vintage Estwing hammer display
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two more eye catching displays, nice job.
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Nice. You can get started on mine anytime. :wink:
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A couple more displays done! Let me preface that these are not wrenches but I'm posting them here anyway. The first is a late 50's True Temper Rocket A-16 hammer that is in pretty decent shape considering it's been used regularly. The second is a set of Stanley chisels my dad bought me at Coast to Coast hardware store in 1984 when I was in 7th grade. The chisels are not exactly antique tools but they hold sentimental meaning for me.
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Do you mind if I steal your design for my Plomb display?
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I don’t mind at all. In fact I’m working on a Plomb pebble combo set now. I still need a number of bigger wrenches to finish out the set. Then I can make the display.
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You wouldn't happen to have an extra 3/8 pebble combo would you?
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You wouldn't happen to have an extra 3/8 pebble combo would you?
What size large combos are you missing?
Mike
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You wouldn't happen to have an extra 3/8 pebble combo would you?
I spotted a little Plomb combo in the bottom of a box of C-man OE's. Drat! It was another 7/16.
The search goes on.
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You wouldn't happen to have an extra 3/8 pebble combo would you?
What size large combos are you missing?
Mike
I found a 3/8" combo almost immediately on ebay for fairly cheap. I think it was $12 shipped and it's in decent shape.
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You wouldn't happen to have an extra 3/8 pebble combo would you?
What size large combos are you missing?
Mike
I need 13/16 and everything above 1". Otherwise I have all of them including the 3/8" and 5/16".
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This will be the last display for a while (probably). I don't plan on any others till I finish my Plomb pebble combo set. Of course something in my workshop could catch my eye. The Stanley chisels were a spontaneous project. This is an Artisan/S-K ratchet and socket set I assembled. My grandfather had this set but my brother (retirement planner with little interest in tools) inherited them.
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Hank, I’m pretty sure I have a 1 1/16 in. one. It’s in my motor home so will be a few days before I can check.
Mike
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Hank, I’m pretty sure I have a 1 1/16 in. one. It’s in my motor home so will be a few days before I can check.
Mike
Thanks!
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Hank
Where did you get the clips holding the wrenches?
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Which board are you talking about? The open and combo wrenches are held on with simple L-hooks I bought at the hardware store.
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that's the ones.
thanks
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For some reason I could not send the pics on a pm so I'll try it here
One pic shows my set which has 9 different sizes ( not 8 like I had said ) and the other picture shows the 2 that I could send you, unfortunately I don"t have a spare 5/8x9/16.The two I can send are the 1x15/16 and a 1/2x 7/16.
It looks to me that I might be missing one size probably a 3/8x5/16.This is just a quess by looking at the lengths that get progesivly shorter as the sizes decrease
Here is a page from the ‘43 Barcalo Catalog.
-Don
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Thanks Don. Iv'e been looking for that info without any luck for a long time. Unfortunately the sizes are not very clear, The one I'm not sure of is the second to last ,the 26-731C. Could you possibly have a look and let me know what the sizes are. If you or anyone wants to do some trading of this pattern I have several duplicates. I know now that I'm missing the 26-725 7/16" x1/2" and the 26-731C whatever size that may be. Jim.
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26-732C looks like 3/4" -11/16"
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my best reading of that is
26-731C looks like 3/4" - 15/16"
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My first thought was 3/4 x 15/16 but that just dosn't make sense to my way of thinking. 3/4 x 11/16 sounds more logical
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As illogical as it seems, I believe that size is 3/4” x 15/16”. The second half of the part number is supposed to correspond to the Industry Standard Number, as far as I can tell, and I don’t see a 731C in Alloy Artifact’s chart. I have some Double Grip DOE wrenches but I’m not sure of the sizes and I’m not where they are at the moment.
-Don
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Just to muddy the waters a bit more, here is a listing from 1941 that shows some different sizes.
-Don
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Like you say it's getting a little muddy. I'm going to have another look at my wrenches, I think I have some of the same sizes but the script is on the the opposite face of the wrench,maybe from different production years or whatever?????? Thanks again for the info. where the heck did you find those? Jim.
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While putting together my onboard Jeep toolset and other WW2 toolsets I became interested in Barcalo and have gathered quite a large collection with plenty of help from my WW2 collecting colleagues. Those guys have the only known Barcalo catalogs and have provided me with some scans. Some of those were also available on Twertsy’s Tool Archives site until it went down. He is working on trying to get it functioning again.
-Don
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Thanks Don. I haven't looked at Twertsty's site for quite a while and didn't realize it was down, nor did I notice his Barcalo posts.I'm on the road in a few days for the remainder of this month and most of next but I have a fairly big collection of Barcalo tools that I'll try to get some pics and post them when I get back.
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Some of those were also available on Twertsy’s Tool Archives site until it went down. He is working on trying to get it functioning again.
-Don
Already thought that Toolarchives was no longer available in Europe.
Regards
Henri
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I found another listing for Barcalo Double Grip wrenches.
-Don
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I started this post 2 1/2 years ago showing the tool display boards I had been making as well as telling the story on some of my wrench collections. The ultimate goal was to use the displays in a workshop space when we finally bought a new house. Well, we bought a new house in January and I ended up with 2 workshop spaces. One out in the 4 1/2 stall garage and one in a small room in the basement. The basement space is my hangout space that ended up with all the displays. I still have some displays to put up and some wall space to fill but it's a work in progress. Here's some pictures of the space.
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There is something missing in those pics????Dirt and dust!!!Give me your address and I'll send you some genuine shop dirt and dust for free!!! I have more than anyone would ever need! Hahahaha
You shop looks great!!!
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I cleaned up for the photos! It doesn't get real messy though cause its my tinkering shop. The garage shop is where I work on my cars and I do woodworking at my place of employment after hours. I'm a lucky guy to have so many work spaces!
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Those display boards are great, I really like the Ford idea. Well done!
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I really hate Fords, but I love your ford display.
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I really like those Barcalo convex wrenches. Lots of sizes.
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Adding these to the wall. Picked them up at the Habitat Store the other day.
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have to assume you wore your mask...? :cool:
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Yes I did!
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Wow! Look brand new.
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I agree with yadda!! even the pouch/roll looks great!!
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They Barcalo wrench set has already found a place on the wall.
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They Barcalo wrench set has already found a place on the wall.
No proof without pictures! :grin:
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